Tuesday, March 1, 2011

As I was toiling away on my Thomas the Tank Engine editing, I got this message through our inter-office chat system...(2:37 PM) Arlyn Bantog: Nana was asking if we knew anyone that can do graffiti

I thought a brief moment, then responded.(2:37 PM) Ellery_Vandooyeweert: nope... What does she want?

I wasn't getting an answer, so as I was now distracted from work anyways, I opened up MS Paint and got to work... as I worked, Arlyn responded.

(2:41 PM) Arlyn Bantog: a painting for Jode's birthday(2:41 PM) Arlyn Bantog: i said either one of us could probably do it depending on what she had in mind(2:41 PM) Arlyn Bantog: so she's getting pictures together(2:41 PM) Arlyn Bantog: it could be a case of photoshop and print on canvas

(2:43 PM) Ellery_Vandooyeweert: you can send her this...

I laughed at her response.

(2:43 PM) Arlyn Bantog: did you just make that now?(2:45 PM) Arlyn Bantog: haha(2:45 PM) Ellery_Vandooyeweert: no I had it on my desk top for months... heh(2:45 PM) Ellery_Vandooyeweert: just waiting... and waiting... for you to ask(2:45 PM) Arlyn Bantog: that's amazing(2:45 PM) Ellery_Vandooyeweert: thnx(2:46 PM) Arlyn Bantog: i'm emailing it to her

(2:53 PM) Arlyn Bantog: your bubble letters are so 1988(2:54 PM) Ellery_Vandooyeweert: I know, eh! You know why? 'Cuz in Grade 7 I was EXTREMELY Jealous that girls in my class could do them so well, that I spent hours trying to learn....(2:55 PM) Arlyn Bantog: bubble letter envy.... i remember that feeling

Later, Arlyn got this response from Nana...

Thanks for the graffiti Ellery, I was considering something to do with final fantasy that he plays CONSTANTLY...hes got a character or whatever you call them and i was sort of thinking of that character in a graffiti art setting...its really hard to explain and it doesn't have to be EXOTIC...i don't know anything about gaming so i cant ask him anything else as I just texted him and asked him what his game was...i wouldn't even know how to get to his game although I know his character wears a hoodie... I really don't know what it is this is getting so confusing...i thought about a med/small in whatever medium...need to know the cost as well. materials and artistic compensation. xoxo i have been looking online and there's too much, but if i come up with a style? xoxo

I knew from that e-mail EXACTLY what she was wanting.

*Update.

Apparently Nana took a Banksy book out of the library and said she would mark out what stuff she liked as a guide what to do... I'm not sure how Banksy's art would work with Jode and his obsession with hooded characters in Final Fantasy...

A MILLION!?!?! I thought it was ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND!??!?

You're RIGHT! In my search for the famous Chuck Jones quote about bad drawings, I consistently found it quoted as " Everyone has a million bad drawings in them...". It turns out Chuck Jones was quoting his teacher, and his his teacher had told him that everyone has "one hundred thousand" in them...

However, I consider myself a pretty crappy artist, and I probably have more than a hundred thousand bad drawings in me. So this blog is my attempt to get the MILLION bad drawings out of my system and be an AWESOME artist. This may never happen. A million drawings is a lot. But "A Million Bad Drawings" has a better ring to it than "One Hundred Thousand Bad Drawings", right?

I should note that I generally hate everything I draw, and I'm not fishing for compliments. "That's not bad!" does not help me. Critique does! Critique away! Let me know what I'm doing wrong. You won't hurt my feelings. Asshole.